At the main base of the Air Force of Latvia in Lievard, the construction of a new runway with NATO money began, DELFI reports. "The military airfield in Lielvard will become the main base of the armed forces, it will contribute to the successful conduct of search and rescue operations, as well as, in the event of an emergency, it will be able to become a reserve airfield for civil aviation," the commander of the Latvian armed forces said during the ceremony of the start of construction work.

Italy "wants to return his guys from Afghanistan as soon as possible", but will coordinate his actions with NATO allies. This was stated on the sidelines of the EU summit Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, commenting on the death of six Italian soldiers in Afghanistan, ITAR-TASS reports. "This is a hard day for Italy. We are all sure that we need to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible," Berlusconi said.

From Poland, "deceived and humiliated" the US refusal of plans to place OP elements, comments continue to come with an expression of anxiety about the new Russian expansion. As the editor -in -chief of the Warsaw Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Mikhnik, said on Friday, if the US decision means a radical turn against Russia, then this will alarm it very much.

On the eve of his visit to Switzerland on September 21-22, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview to the Swiss media. In particular, he noted that the situation with human rights in Russia is "not sterile" at all, a lot of human rights violations, and they must be eliminated, RIA Novosti reports. "We must protect them (rights) in all possible ways, primarily judicial.

Russia took fifth place in the UN ranking to attract foreign direct investment, the report made in a report prepared by the UN Trading and Development conference (UNCTAD). The United States retain the leadership in the Unctad list, in the second and third places - France and China, then the UK and Russia follow, RIA Novosti writes.

A wave of crisis can raise new persons in Moscow to the Olympus of power. The names of Anton Ustinov, Herman Khan, Igor Rudeni, Konstantin Babkin and Stanislav Naumov can become known to the whole of Russia in the near future, writes the publication "Business and Baltic." According to him, in the future, the head of Soyuzagromash, Konstantin Babkin, has the chances of receiving the post of Minister of Agriculture in the future, and Igor Rudenya can head the Rosagrolysing Corporation.

In Karabulak on Friday, during the movement of the truck, an explosion occurred at the railway track. No one was injured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, the incident occurred at 15:00 Moscow time on the outskirts of the city. “At the moment when a commodity train passed along the railway canvas, an explosion of an unidentified explosive device occurred.

In Russia, more than 2.5 million people are sick with alcoholism and smoke more than 60% of men and more than 30% of women. Such statistics were brought on Friday by the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko, ITAR-TASS reports. “If we talk about official statistics, then we have about two to two and a half million alcoholics,” the head physician said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station.

The guitarist of the legendary Rolling Stones group Ronnie Wood broke off relations with the 20-year-old Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, romantic relations with which lasted more than a year, writes RIA Novosti . Recall that Ronnie Wood and Ekaterina Ivanova met last summer in a pub, after which the famous musician took a young passion to his country house in Ireland.

Nokia Siemens Networks, which produces operator telecommunication equipment, announced the first case of practical use of the first fourth generation network. The developers made the first real phone call through the commercial base station of the LTE standard using fully standardized software. The company’s press release says that this step is another evidence of the soon coming to the LTE network market, reports CyberSecurity.ru .

In Kyrgyzstan, the trial in the case of disaster in August last year of the passenger aircraft Boeing-737-200, which operated in Tehran, continues. The aircraft commander Yuri Goncharov and the second pilot Timofei Vodolagin partially pleaded guilty, Interfax reports. There were 90 people on board the aircraft, including 83 passengers, six crew members and a representative of the Iranian airline. 25 survived of them, including all crew members.

The European Union is concerned about the state of national minorities in Georgia, which "are subjected to linguistic, social and religious discrimination." This is stated in the letter of the European Parliament deputy Silvi Guillaume to the Commissioner for External Relations of the EU Benit Ferrero-Waldner. In particular, the Euro -deputy draws attention to the region of Georgia where the Armenians live: he is deprived of transit routes, medical and social services.

The first object put up for auction by the Russian auction house (Rad), recently created with the participation of Sberbank, will be the St. Petersburg Palace of Count Kushelev-Bezborodko of the XVIII century, writes RBC Daily . Palace of Count Kushelev-Bezborodko with an area of ​​6.5 thousand square meters. m, located in the historical center of St. Petersburg on the Kutuzov embankment, will be put up for auction in the first decade of December and sold through a Dutch auction (to lower).

The Federal Financial Market Service (FSFR) posted on its website the draft Federal Law "On the features of investing in infrastructure using infrastructure bonds", the Kommersant newspaper writes. The infrastructure bond in the document refers to a bond issued by a specialized design organization in order to attract funds to infrastructure projects. Any company for the release of infrastructure bonds will have to register a "daughter" that will engage in any infrastructure project.

In Ukraine, there are several scenarios for the breakdown of the presidential election, which should take place on January 17. This, according to Interfax , said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko on the air of the Dnipropetrovsk regional television and radio company on Friday evening. "There are such threats and such bad signals. According to the information that I own, there are technologies that they want to use to disrupt the presidential election," the prime minister said.